The Works of Robert Burns

Tedding.

"And we'll get teats o' woo." Spreading after the mower.

Teethless bawtie. Toothless cur.

"When our dog Bawtie barks, fast to the door
I rin."
Scots Song.

Teethless gab. A mouth wanting the teeth, an expression of

"Bot thrissil, nettil, brier, and thorne." Through. To go on with, to make out.

Thrum.

Rea

Lyndsey.

Hey ca' through ca' through." Scots Sung. Throu'ther. Pell-mell, confusedly (through-ither. "And see throwither warpied were that she." Ross. Sound of a spinning wheel in motion, the thread remaining at the end of a web. "He's no gude weaver that leaves lang thrums" Scots Proters. Thud. To make a loud intermittent noise. "Throw cluds so, he thuds so." Montgomery. Thummart. Foumart, pole-cat. "May the foumart lay his crawin." Thumpit. Thumped.

Scots Song.

Tentless.

Teugh.

Thack.

Heedful, cautious. "Be wyse and tentie in thy governing." Maitland Poems. Heedless, careless. "She that fa's owre a strae 's a tentless taupie."' Scots Proverb. Tough. "Wi' aureate leuis, and flexibil twistis teuch." Douglas. Thatch; thack an' rape, clothing and necessaries; alluding to the covering of a corn rick. "Some grathis first the thack and rufe of tree."

Thysel'.

Till't.

Timmer.

"When pulpit thumpers did express."? Mexton Thyself. "Mind thysel'-the warld will mind the lave " Scots Proverb. To it. "Till't they gade ye see on a braw simmer morning. Timber.

Scutt

Thae, thir. These. Thairms.

Small guts, fiddle strings.

"Timmeris for helmis war the tane.""

Tine, or tyne. To lose; tint, lost; tint the gate, lost the

"Micht he do ocht but tyne him as it was " Blind Harry.

A tinker.

"It canna be warse that's no worth a tinkler's curse." Scots Provers

Young Colin plodded wi' his strayed tins." Tippence. Two-pence, money.

"Wae to him that lippens to others for tippence." Scots Proverb

Tirl, tirlin', tirlet. To make a slight noise, to uncover; uncovering. "When the wind blaws loud

and tirls our

strae." "And aff his coat they tirlet by the croun.

The other. "An' the tae fat boutcher fryed the tither." Jacobite Rebies.

Barberg

Tip.

A ram.

Tither.

"She can digest the wheels o' tumbler cars like Willie Stalker's mare." Scots Saying. Raw hide, of which in old time plough traces were frequently made.

Tug or tow. Either in leather or rope.

Tulzie.

Burns.

K. James.

"As e'er in tug or tow was traced." A quarrel, to quarrel, to fight. "Sevin' sum that the tulzie maid." Two; twa-fauld, two fold. "They made a paction 'tween them twa." K. James V. "In twa three words I'll gie ye my opinion." Scots Poem. It would. Twelve; twal pennie worth, a small quantity, a pennyworth.-N. B. One penny English is twelve pence Scotch.

"In twal year throw his douchty dede."

To part.

Barbour.

Too-fa'. Toom.

Fergusson. "Too fa' o' the nicht," when twilight darkens into night; a building added, a lean-to. Empty.

Twa.

"Of toom dominion on the plenteous main." Ramsay.

Twa three. A few.

Toop.

A ram.

My poor toop lamb, my son an' heir." Burns. A toast.

Twad.

Twal.

"An' a' forbye my bonnie sel', The toss o' Ecclefechan."

Tosie.

Warm and ruddy with warmth, good-looking, intoxicating.

"And brought them wealth of meat and tosie

Twin.

Scots Story.

Tyke.

A dog.

Old Ballad. Touzles, touzling. Romping; ruffling the clothes. "Whilk touzles a' their tap, and gars them shak wi' fear." Fergusson.

Tysday.

"Thocht he dow not to leid a tyk." Tuesday.

Dunbar.

"Saw ye ought o' the rinaway bride Should been married on tysday 'teen.

Scots Song.

"He'll no twin wi' his gear."' Old Ballad. Twisting, the art of making a rope. "I'll twissle yere thrapple in a jiffy."

Tow.

A rope. "His towes I find hae been sae fine."

Scots Poem.

Towzie.

Towmond. A twelvemonth. "To this towmond I'se indent." Ramsay, Rough, shaggy.

Unback'd filly. A young mare hitherto unsaddled. "But take it like the unbacked filly,

Toy.

"He's an auld tawtie touzie beast."

Proud o' her speed." Burns. Strange, uncouth, very, very great, prodigious. "Ye've lain in an unco bed, and wi' an unco man." Scots Song.

Uncos.

News.

Toyte.

To totter like old age.

"Sae tell's the uncos that ye've heard or

Trams.

"He's auld and feckless, an' a' he dow do is to toyte about." Scots Song. Barrow-trams, the handles of a barrow. "We'll batter it wi' a barrow tram."

seen."

Morison.

Dunbar.

"The news grow cauld that slow tongues unfauld." Scots Proverb. Unkenn'd. Unknown.

"An unkenn'd sea has ay an unkenn'd shore." Scots Proverb.

Trashtrie. Trash, rubbish.

Transmugrified. Transmigrated, metamorphosed.

"It has undergone a great transmogrification." Galt.

Unsicker. Uncertain, wavering, unsecure.

"Wi' sauce, ragouts, and such like trashtrie."

Burns.

Unsicker, unstable, quo' the wave to the cable." Scots Proverb. Unskaithed. Undamaged, unhurt.

Upo'.

Upon.

Full of tricks.

Unweeting. Unwittingly, unknowing. Urchin. A hedge-hog.

Vap'rin.

Vauntie.

Vera.

Very.

Burns.

Virl.

A ring round a column, &c

Vapouring.

In wrath she was sae vap'rin." Joyous, delight which cannot contain itself. "Tis daffin to be vaunty."

Burns.

Old Song.

"Other fowk are well faured, but ye're no sae vera."

Scots Saying.

"Of plumb-tree made, with ivory virles

"And vogie that I ca' my ain."

Ramsay.

Ross.

Sinclair.

Wall; wa's, walls.

"And trowth had in swylk fantasie."

Wyntown.

"The lady look'd over the castle wa',

Cried wha maks a' this din ?" Scots Ballad.

Waft.

Woe; waefu', sorrowful, wailing.
"It was wae-days wi' Charlie."
Waefu'-woodie. Hangman's rope.
"But weary-fa' the waefu'-woodie."
Waesucks! Wae's me! Alas! O the pity!

"Some that hae least to dree are loudest wi'
wae's me!"'
Scots Proverb.

Wa' flower. Wall-flower.

"Ye may fin' the smell o' the wa'-flower for three miles frae the abbey tap when the win's in the west." Scots Story. Woof; the cross thread that goes from the shuttle through the web.

"True love's the waft o' life, but it whiles comes through a sorrowfu' shuttle." Scots Saying. Waifs an' crocks. Stray sheep and old ewes, past breeding. "And sittin down like sarye crokkis." Dunbar.

Wearie, or weary. Mony a weary body, many a tolisome person.

Weary-widdle. Toilsome contest of life.

"This warl's a widdle, as weel as a riddle " Scots Proper Weasand, windpipe.

Waukrife. Not apt to sleep.

At the wauking of the fauld." Thickened as fullers do cloth. "Done, quo' Pate, and syne his erles Nailed the dysters wäuket loof."

A. Wilson

"Thou art a gay and kindlie quean, But thou hast a waukrife minnie."